Senior Backend Engineer

The role

You will design and build the architecture, distributed systems, and backend services for an agent trust platform. You will own the process from system design to deployment and maintenance of production-grade services.

What you will do

• Own the architecture and system design for core platform services
• Build and run production-grade backend services and APIs in Python or Java
• Design and scale distributed systems
• Prototype, architect, build, test, deploy, and own products from vague problem statements
• Build and maintain data pipelines for analytics, ML, and customer-facing features
• Work with product, ML, and infrastructure partners to ship customer value
• Pick up React work when a feature needs it

Required qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production backend services in Python or Java
• Experience designing, running, and debugging APIs and services under load
• Experience designing systems from a blank page and weighing tradeoffs
• Experience building and scaling distributed architectures in production
• Experience taking ambiguous problems to a deployed product

Nice to have

• React
• Agentic or LLM-powered systems in production
• Data pipelines on AWS
• PySpark

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• Remote-first environment

About the company

Monte Carlo is the agent trust platform that autonomously observes, fixes, and continuously improves agents and the data that powers them. More than 400 enterprises rely on Monte Carlo.